Bab Al-Bahrain Souq at night, originally uploaded by malyousif. I took my daughter Hanan and son Arif for a quick visit to the Manama Bab Al-Bahrain souq last night to visit my uncle and to show them (very quickly!) what it looks like at night. What I determined to do is that I’ve got to …
I have no earthly idea what magic my youngest sister Maha uses with cats, but she can do whatever she likes to them and they love her for it! More, with her, cats are like dogs! They follow her around and respond to her commands as if they’ve been to the (dog) obedience school. I …
nasser jr. comes to our home, originally uploaded by malyousif. A chance visit, I was just turning into our driveway about half an hour ago when Abeer – his mother – called to say that she’s dropping off her laptop so I can do a little magic with it (in prep for her going back …
Amna’s results, originally uploaded by malyousif. The twit did pretty poorly in her GCSE exams; she just got 1x A*, 4x As, 1x B, and 3 (yes THREE) Cs. When asked how the hell did she manage all of that, and especially an A in Arabic, she said, and I quote: “I’ve been very very …
No one can nag better than children, I have no idea how they get that annoying feature into an art form. They’re so sweet as they go about it (most of the time, because in our household, if you nag obnoxiously, you just don’t get anything no matter how blue you get in the face!) …